Dress.



S. ABRAMS.

DRESS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.31,1912.

Patented Jan. 5. 1915.

Attest: Inventor: 4'47, W

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DRESS.

Application filed December 31, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL ABRAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dresses, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in dresses having the feature of adjustability in size and one of the primary objects is to provide a garment with overlapping and underlapping portions having fasteners on their adjacent faces, and means whereby the fasteners on the underlapping portion will be covered when not in use, so that when uncovered by the overlapping portion, they still will not be exposed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a dress embodying my invention; Fig. 2 shows a detailed portion of the waistband of the dress on an enlarged scale; Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is also a vertical section on the line H in Fig. 2.

I will now describe the devices of the drawings, reserving it to the claims to point out the novel features and to define the scope of the invention, it being understood that the claims will be given the due range of equivalents to which they may be entitled in View of the art.

1 designates a dress or garment which may be of any kind or character or style to which my idea can be applied, that shown for the purpose of illustration being a long dress of the coat style with over and underlapping portions designated 2 and 3 respectively. On the under side of the upper portion 2 is a plurality of vertical rows 4e, 4 4 4, of fastener parts. To cooperate with these there is preferably only a single vertical row 5 of the complementary fastener parts on the underlapping portion 3. Only the lowermost member of this series 5 is visible in Fig. 1, the others being located immediately under the series 4 The garment is shown adjusted to a medium size and can be made two sizes smaller by connecting the fasteners of either row 4 or 4% with those of row 5; or it can be adjusted to a still larger size by connecting row 4* with row 5. Of course, the number of rows of fasteners provided on the garment determines the extent to which it can be adjusted, and said number may be varied to suit the manufacturer. The fasteners for Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Serial No. 739,464.

the most part are on the underside of the portion 2 of the garment and are, therefore, concealed from View. Finally, I provide preferably a plurality .of vertical rows (i 6", etc., of fastener parts on the underlapping portion 3, these being located under or within concealing plaits 7. The object of these fasteners 6 etc., is to connect with the complementary fasteners on the underside of the overlapping portion 2 and thereby prevent the free edge of said portion from flapping loosely, no matter how far it may overlap the underlapping portion 3 in any given adjustment of the garment. Ob viously, the fastening devices may be of any preferred character, Figs. 1 and 3 showing a so-called glove or resilient ball and socket fastener; and Figs. 2 and 4; showing hooks 4:4? and eyes 66 and 66 The invention provides an adjustable garment for maternity or any other purpose and effectively conceals the means by which the adjustment is effected.

What I claim is:

1. An adjustable garment having over and underlapping portions, a plurality of series of complementary fastener parts on said portions, and means on the underlapping portion for concealing its fastener parts.

2. An adjustable garment having over and underlapping portions, a plurality of series of complementary fastener parts on said portions, and lait-means on the underlapping portion concealing its fastener parts.

3. An adjustable garment having over and underlapping portions, a plurality of vertical series of fastener parts on the lm derside of the overlapping portion, and a vertical series of complementary fastener parts on the outer side of the underlapping portion, and additional vertical series of said complementary parts on the same underlapping portion but located further away from its vertical edge, and means on said underlapping portion for concealing said additional fastener parts.

4. An adjustable garment having over and underlapping portions, a plurality of vertical series of fastener parts on the underside of the overlapping portion, and a vertical series of complementary fastener parts on the outer side of the underlapping portion, and additional vertical series of said complementary parts on the same underlapping portion but located --further away from its vertical edge, and lait-means on said underlapping portion concealing said additional fastener parts.

5. An adjustable garment having ovenvand under-lapping portions, fasteners on the overlapping portion, complementary fasteners on the upper side of the underlapping vportion, and plait-means on said underlapping portion concealing said complementary fasteners.

6. An afdjustable"garment having over and underlapping'jportions, fastener members on'theinner side of "the overlapping portion, complementary fastener members -on-theouter side of the underlapping port-ion, and means carried by said underlapping portion and extending over the complementary fastener members carried therecomplementary members to permit them to be engaged with the members on the overlapping portion. I I

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